[GreenKeys] Uploading Bulletins to Internet Teletype (ITTY)

[William Bytheway]

The Internet Teletype (ITTY) site has been running 24/7 for 
several weeks now.  George has worked out most of the bugs 
and it is now reliably providing teletype broadcasts to the 
world.

What I'm offering is the opportunity for many of you to 
contribute news article to ITTY using software developed at
the "Bytheway Software Development Lab" (BSDL) that allows one
to easily upload bulletins to ITTY.

I've just updated RTTYMailer v1.5 with many improvements. I've
tested it on WindowsXP, Windows98 and currently running it on
a Windows95 machine (486-DX100), so it doesn't take a fancy
machine to make it work.  Download the software at:

  http://207-207-72-42.ip.theriver.com/development/software/

You will need to unzip the file and place the executable somewhere
on your computer where you can easily find it!  There is only one
file in the package (no registery problems or secret install 
programs).

General instructions can be found at (still updating them):

  http://207-207-72-42.ip.theriver.com/itty/

RTTYMailer has an added feature that allow you to meter out bulletins
at a user determined interval.  Once you bulk load George's system, I
suggest you enable this feature (using the check box) and leave your
machine on 24/7 to keep updating one message every time cycle.  This 
allows a certain randomness of the messages so they don't seem to come 
from one place.  George will be providing "fill" material to ensure 
that the "listeners" don't get overwhelmed by a single source.  

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There's no formal documentation yet, but here is the short 
cook instructions.

1.  On the "SMTP Server" drop down menu, select 
    207.207.72.32 (George's IP). This is the only ITTY choice,
    but you can select "itty at readysetsurf" as an option. 

2.  On the "Mail From" put your personal info that will appear 
    before every message. Get creative, as most of you are. 

3.  The most recent change is that if you leave the "Subject" line
    as defaulted in the window, it uses the filename for the 
    subject. You can use any filename you want, so long as it is 
    accepted by your OS and WindowsXP.  Of course you can override
    the default with a "standard" subject title, but I recommend 
    letting the software specify the title from the file name.

  Examples of long file names I'm using are:

    C:RTTYAppNews\RFI Sources in Recreational Vehicles.txt
    C:RTTYAppNews\Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES).txt
    C:RTTYAppNews\NASA Systems launches Return to Flight Web site.txt
    C:RTTYAppNews\Unmanned Little Bird team, Apache aircrew earn awards.txt
    C:RTTYAppNews\A daily look at US Iraq military deaths.txt

  The subject titles are assigned as follows (without the .txt):

    Subject: RFI Sources in Recreational Vehicles
    Subject: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES)
    Subject: NASA Systems launches Return to Flight Web site
    Subject: Unmanned Little Bird team, Apache aircrew earn awards
    Subject: A daily look at US Iraq military deaths

    Note: Do not use a '.' period anywhere in the filename, except
          for the ending ".txt". I use that to trigger the end of 
          the subject name.  So if you must name something like 
          "U.S.A", rename it to "USA".

4.  "Get File" allows you to select text files from anywhere on 
    your computer.  You can select multiple files or a single file.  
    Select multiple files by holding down the shift key (for 
    contiguous files) or control key (for non-contiguous files). 

5.  If you double-click on the file, it comes up in notepad for 
    editing.  I suggest putting in an ARRL-type header in the file 
    that describes the subject and date. Use your own judgment as 
    to what you want the listener to read. 

6.  Hopefully you did your homework and trimmed the number of 
    characters per line (recommended at 68) and checked for foul 
    language.

73,
K7TTY